Age of Adepts

Sorcerer's Gauntlet.

Especially a 4th rank wizard's private witch tower, a place of death with many traps and traps!

For the vast majority of ordinary sorcerers, privately visiting the residence of a high-ranking sorcerer was already as difficult and dangerous as exploring the Dragon's Nest.

This 'little worm' of unknown origin was clearly not a good person either.

She had surprisingly easily barged through the Molten Fire Cave, traversed the Molten Fire Hall, and then sneaked into the Flame Throne while Grim was opening the door to the Witch Tower to receive the two visitors.

For the other party to be able to make it this far was beyond what ordinary characters could do!

However, the other party might not have thought that the layout and structure inside Grim's Private Witch Tower would be so odd and subversive. The first and second floors of the tower are completely isolated from the upper floors, and there is no direct passage to pass through.

After sneaking into the Witch Tower and quickly exploring all the hidden spaces on the first and second floors, without finding a path to the upper floors, Karin immediately knew that she had encountered a bastard sorcerer with an extremely perverted requirement for personal safety.

There's no physical pathway, so I'll just dig one myself....

With a brute spirit of disobedience, Karin found a hidden room on the second floor, secretly set up a silent boundary, and then began frantically digging up the stone slabs on the ceiling.

The witch tower that Grim had built was just a standard model of a small witch tower, and he was naturally too poor to use the best steel rocks on a large scale inside the tower. Therefore, the volcanic rocks taken from the local materials, under the violent demolition of the 3rd rank witch, could only fall like rain, and in a short time, a hole the size of a fist was dug out.

Unfortunately, not only did Karin not sense the presence of the upper atmosphere of the tower through the hole, but she accidentally touched a spatial barrier.

Only then did Karin fully understand that the damned fire witch had not only blocked the upper floor of the tower, but also separated the second and third floors of the tower from each other spatially. The two towers seemed to be connected, but in fact, they belonged to two completely different planes of space.

To enter the upper level of the Tower, one could either use a fixed teleportation array or use short-range teleportation like Grim... However, short-range teleportation required the specific location of the upper level of the Tower, as well as the teleportation permission of the Tower Spirit.

This time, Karin was completely blinded!

Although she was proficient in shadow jumping, she could pass through as long as shadows existed. But this spatial barrier in front of her was blocking all paths of advancement. If she jumped aimlessly and haphazardly, she might be on the second floor of the Sorcerer's Tower one moment, and the next moment she would be thrown by the spatial turbulence into the treacherous interdimensional layer.

After all, the transit station for all spatial sorcery was the interspatial layer, the mysterious and terrifying region between the two layers of the boundary membrane of the bitter barrier.

Although the spatial environment there was much better than the Outer Void, it could still be considered a dangerous place of nine lives for an unprepared 3rd Order Dark Witch!

Just as Karin was in a hurry, not knowing how to sneak to the upper levels of the Witch Tower, her every move had been captured by the Witch Tower Spirit.

Looking through the monitoring crystal at the wretched 'thief' who was burrowing around her home, Grim raised his eyebrows and said coldly, "Shadow Demon, you go and get her!"

Words still clouded the room, and no movement was perceived.

But the strange shadow of the Shadow Demon had been missing from the back beneath Grim.

.................

Karin was moving quickly through the shadows.

With each jump, she passed through one or more walls and emerged within a completely unfamiliar room.

Karin held her breath and hid in the shadows, quietly surveying the entire chamber.

If there was something she was interested in, she would stop and dive closer to check the vastness. If there was nothing odd, she would leap out again and peer into the shadows of another chamber.

As a dark witch, where shadow energy existed was their world!

As long as there were no energy barriers or sorcerous boundaries, they were free to move around like fish in a river, taking a bubble, setting off a splash or whatever in any place they wanted to reach.

But such leisureliness obviously couldn't last!

As Karin moved slowly in a wide witchcraft hall, she suddenly turned her body to look at another corner of the hall. There, in a large shadow left by a corridor pillar, she suddenly perceived a strange wave of shadows.

It wasn't an elemental fluctuation caused by an explosion of shadow energy, but rather a ripple of energy pulled by some kind of creature moving through the shadow matter. As an elite among the Dark Witches, Karin was simply all too familiar with this kind of energy ripples.

Could it be that there were other shadow creatures here?

Karin couldn't help but whisper.

Those high-ranking witches would often keep all kinds of strange and fierce witch beasts or summoned creatures inside the witch tower in order to protect themselves and their property, so it wasn't impossible for some shadow creatures to appear.

At the thought of this, Karin couldn't help but become nervous, and stealthily observed the deep darkness in the shadows.

She could sense that there was something strange about the dark shadows there, as if they were boiling water, appearing much more active and agitated than elsewhere. And in the deep darkness, hidden within the deep darkness, there was a huge shadow-like monster, dancing there with its teeth and claws, looking like it wanted to choose and devour people.

Karin held her breath and quietly cast a shadow sorcery, trying to find out what the other party was up to. However, just before the aftermath of the sorcery was exhausted, her face changed drastically, and her figure disappeared in the darkness with a flicker.

Almost as soon as she disappeared, a strange creature several times larger than her suddenly appeared in the depths of the darkness, and several shimmering metal blades with a dark shadow luster slashed through her original hiding place. Where the sharp blades flashed, even the pitch-black darkness was sliced into several segments, unable to be bridged again. It wasn't until the strange power was completely gone that the turbulent darkness was extended again.

Karin's heart was still pounding when she emerged from another darkness, and she was even able to instantly discern the identity of the other party with that electric glimpse she had just had.

The Shadowsteel Demon Statue... Damn it, it was the Shadowsteel Demon Statue!

Karin was a small and half expert on this strange life form that was somewhere between a shadow creature and a constructed creature. After all, in a small kingdom established by the Dark Witch in the Shadow Realm, there also existed such strange fellows that resembled both constructs and beings.

They had a powerful protection ability that was no weaker than that of metal constructs, and also had a flexible body shape similar to that of a shadow assassin. Therefore, in a real battle, a single Shadowsteel Demon Statue is enough to fight two to three Dark Witches of the same level without losing a single battle.

However, Shadowsteel statues are too resource-intensive to build, so the Dark Witches usually only use them to guard treasure troves or secret entrances, rather than using them as cannon fodder in the battlefield.

As the elite of the 3rd rank of Darkness, Karin naturally fought with these dark creatures to sharpen her fighting skills. So, for the Shadowsteel magic weapon, Karin is also familiar and familiar, simply can close her eyes to confront and maneuver with them.

Therefore, when Karin perceived a sudden slight fluctuation in the shadow matter at her side, she also did not hesitate to jump out again.

Unlike last time, this time the shadow jump Karin didn't leave the original one. And the moment she jumped and walked away, she also reached out her foot and lightly stepped on the shadow, instantly releasing a strange sorcery.

After failing to pounce the first time, the Shadow Demon's heart was without a ripple, quickly locking onto the direction of that 3rd rank witch's escape, and then pounced without hesitation.

Strangely enough, the moment that strange darkness emerged from that strange shadow, the surrounding darkness that had been as calm as water suddenly became viscous and flowing. A strange shackle of darkness surged from all directions, instantly imprisoning the Shadow Demon's body and leaving it frozen in place, unable to move a single muscle.

The dark witch that had originally disappeared before its eyes actually appeared once again, not choosing to flee but instead choosing to counterattack.

A series of Shadow Arrows struck the Shadow Demon's skeleton-like metal body as if it was raining bananas. Mixed in with the Shadow Arrows, two sharp, dark breaths broke through the air, aiming directly at the Shadow Demon's right eye and jugular joint.

If the Shadow Demon was only level 3, it might not have escaped the Elite Witch's backstabbing attack and would have suffered a heavy loss. But after all, it was a powerful magic weapon that Grim had spent a huge amount of resources and effort to create, how could it be compared to those ordinary Shadowsteel statues?

With just a little struggle, the darkness shackles that bound its body broke apart into countless pieces.

The pupils of the Shadow Demon's eyes, hidden in the pale black mist, steeply shot out a dark and dull light, turning into a dark shadow shockwave that crashed into Karin's body. And as if its ghostly claw-like metallic hands opened wide, four sharp, sharp blades with dull luster at the end cut through the long sky, locking up the other party's graceful, tall black figure.

Bastard, this was a 4th-rank Shadowsteel Demon Statue....

As soon as the Lightless Dagger in Karin's hand and the Shadow Demon's hand claw clashed together, she judged the rank by the power scent that erupted from the other party.

Unfortunately, this insight had come a little too late!

If she had judged at the first moment that the opponent was a 4th stage Shadowsteel Demon Statue, Karin would not have tried in vain to carry out a counter-attack assassination, and would have simply chosen to run away.

At that moment, her Lightless Dagger and the opponent's Ghost Claw collided, and the fierce force that erupted from the explosion caused her to fall outwards with a blood-spurting mouth.

She flew straight out of the shadow area and fell heavily onto the hard floor.

Before she could snap out of her dizziness, another shadow shockwave had crashed into her head.

Karin was instantly dizzy, and her body went limp....